Название: Rocket Stories: The Complete Fiction / Полная коллекция произведений из журнала "Rocket Stories" Год выпуска: 2021 Издательство: Jerry eBooks ISBN: отсутствует Формат: EPUB Качество: eBook Язык: английский
Описание: Антология, составленная из художественных произведений, опубликованных в журнале "Rocket Stories". Сканирование, вычитка, форматирование, создание электронной книги - Jerry. "Rocket Stories" - НФ журнал, издавался с апреля по сентябрь 1953, раз в 2 месяца. Редактором первых двух выпусков был Lester del Rey, третьего - Harry Harrison (хотя редактором числился Wade Kaempfert). Среди авторов: Harry Harrison, Poul Anderson, Jerome Bixby, Algis Budrys, George O. Smith ...
The Quest of Quaa - H.A. DeRosso Welcome, Voyager - Hubert J. Bernhard This World is Condemned - Ward Botsford Jackrogue Second - John Jakes The Haters / Ненавистники - William Morrison The Idols of Wuld - Milton Lesser
Blood on My Jets - Algis Budrys Home is the Spaceman - George O. Smith Picnic - Milton Lesser The Temple of Earth / Храм Земли - Poul Anderson Sequel - Ben Smith Breathes There a Man - Charles E. Fritch To the Sons of Tomorrow - Irving E. Cox, Jr. Firegod - William Scarff (Algis Budrys)
Apprentice to the Lamp - Irving E. Cox, Jr. Killer - James E. Gunn Flower Girl - Chester Cohen The Robot Moon - Stanley Mullen Underestimation - Alger Rome (Jerome Bixby and Algis Budrys) Technical Difficulty - Kirby Brooks Day's Work - Noel Loomis An Artist's Life / Жизнь художника - Felix Boyd (Harry Harrison)
Home is the Spaceman
George O. Smith
Enright was coming home, which should have been good, since he was the first Earthman ever to go faster than light. But when he’d been gone eighteen months in a ship that was supplied for only fen days, the authorities were just a trifle curious. ...
Test Pilot Billy Enright looked down at the Earth so far below and decided that home had never looked so good to any man. He and his experimental spacecraft had exceeded the speed of light, he had crossed the monstrous, gulf between stars, and for eighteen months Billy Enright had walked upon the earth-like planet of another star. He had driven faster, gone farther, and stayed away longer than any other human, and now he was happy to be arrowing down towards Mother Earth and home. Mingled excitement and joy tickled his stomach. There would be one royal explosion when he called in for landing instructions; he was going to create as much fuss as Tom Sawyer had caused a couple of hundred years ago when he and his boys turned up at their own funeral services. For Billy Enright had been overdue for eighteen months on a flight-plan calling for a twelve-hour program. He had probably been listed as “Missing” for more than sixteen of the eighteen months. ...
